Most medieval cities in Europe exist in fragments — a cathedral here, a castle wall there, a single preserved street surrounded by centuries of rebuilding…

In 1991, Medellín had a murder rate of 381 per 100,000 people — the highest of any city on earth, in a country that was…

Everyone who goes to the Gulf goes to Dubai. The malls, the skyscrapers, the restaurants, the desert safari that takes you forty minutes from a…

There is a quality of light in Lisbon that photographers talk about the way musicians talk about acoustics — as something structural, built into the…

Here is the problem with telling people about Kotor: the moment you describe it, it sounds like you are exaggerating. A medieval walled city —…

You arrive in Chiang Mai expecting a stopover and leave having rearranged your entire understanding of what a city can feel like. It is Northern…

Muscat sits between the Hajar Mountains and the Gulf of Oman in a series of bays and inlets that give the city a coastline of…

Seoul is a city of ten million people operating at an intensity that makes Tokyo feel relaxed by comparison, which is a sentence that requires…

Zanzibar is consistently ranked among the world’s top beach destinations, which is accurate and almost entirely beside the point. The beaches of Nungwi and Kendwa…

I arrived in Kathmandu on a Tuesday afternoon and spent the first hour convinced that the taxi driver was attempting to lose me in the…

The Cinque Terre — Monterosso, Vernazza, Corniglia, Manarola, Riomaggiore — cling to the Ligurian cliffs above the Mediterranean in a configuration that looks, from the…

Buenos Aires has been having an identity crisis for two hundred years and has wisely decided to embrace it. The boulevards of Palermo resemble Paris,…